Pictures of the day: 6 June 2016

Sherwood Robyn, a 12-year-old koala is given a general anesthetic before being examined by Cheyne Flanagan, clinical director at the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie. The outlook for koala populations on Australia's east coast is dire as habitat loss, dog attacks, car strikes, climate change and disease take their toll. While there were believed to be more than 10 million koalas before British settlers arrived in 1788, a 2012 national count placed their total numbers at around 330,000, though their existence in treetops makes accurate assessment difficult.